From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Broken URLs Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 15:43:36 +0100 Message-ID: <876114y73b.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87si48zwlq.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33098) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zxc3M-0006NQ-Qs for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 09:43:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zxc3I-0003xv-4y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 09:43:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Federico Beffa's message of "Sat, 14 Nov 2015 14:10:01 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Federico Beffa Cc: Guix-devel Federico Beffa skribis: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wro= te: >> The URL probe is sensitive to latency and transient network issues, so >> there can be false positives like this. > > Of course. The point is that if you are testing 1000s of URL at the > same time, you may be overloading your own bit of network and you may > need to increase the timeout. Yeah, possibly. There were only two ETIMEDOUT in the examples I sent; the other one was for Cook, which is still unreachable. Ludo=E2=80=99.